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PALEO-AMERICAN CULTURE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Paleo-American culture mean? 

PALEO-AMERICAN CULTURE (noun)
  The noun PALEO-AMERICAN CULTURE has 1 sense:

1. the prehistoric culture of the earliest human inhabitants of North America and South Americaplay

  Familiarity information: PALEO-AMERICAN CULTURE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PALEO-AMERICAN CULTURE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The prehistoric culture of the earliest human inhabitants of North America and South America

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Paleo-American culture; Paleo-Amerind culture; Paleo-Indian culture

Hypernyms ("Paleo-American culture" is a kind of...):

civilisation; civilization; culture (a particular society at a particular time and place)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Paleo-American culture"):

Clovis culture (the Paleo-American culture of Central America and North America; distinguished chiefly by sharp fluted projectile points made of obsidian or chalcedony)

Folsom culture (the Paleo-American culture of Central America and North America; distinguished chiefly by a thin finely made flint projectile point having the shape of a leaf)


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